Ali Shojaie, professor of biostatistics and adjunct professor of statistics at the University of Washington has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), in recognition of his substantial contributions to statistical research.

Patrick Heagerty, professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington in the School of Public Health has joined the editorial staff of the Journal of American Medicine Association (JAMA) as a statistical editor. 

Yates Coley, PhD, UW faculty member and associate investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI), recently received an Emerging Leader Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.

Six student teams from the third cohort of the Department of Biostatistics Master of Science Capstone Program presented capstone project work in early March to an audience of faculty, peers and their sponsor organizations. 

Investigators commonly find mixtures of DNA in a single forensic sample that contain various unequal contributions, like the DNA samples that could come from multiple people using one knife. Now, the development of technologies can reveal and identify smaller, previously undetectable amounts of DNA samples within the mixture, which enables more specific DNA identification. Faculty member Bruce Weir is interviewed.